Thawing ice has unveiled remains of a long-lost forest in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, indicating the profound changes that have influenced the area – and perhaps what might lie ahead ...

Scientists recently discovered dozens of 5,900-year-old whitebark pines beneath a melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains. This prehistoric forest thrived hundreds of feet above the modern timberline ...

What it tells us about the past: This small, clay tablet was likely a tool used to perform rituals at two prehistoric stone rings in northern Japan over three millennia ago. The holes were used ...

This is not because prehistoric humans did not produce art. There is ample evidence from around the world of prehistoric art dating to as far back as 50,000 years ago. This is why researchers for ...

A heap of skulls found in the center of a prehistoric village has revealed evidence of an unusual ritual tradition associated with the dead that appears to have been practiced for centuries ...

Prehistoric kangaroos in southern Australia had more generalist diets than previously thought, challenging the idea that they went extinct due to specialized feeding habits.

A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) may have found the answer to the question that has been puzzling archeologists for decades: Why is there no prehistoric cave art in the Levant, and ...

Around 20,000 years ago, the prehistoric people who sheltered in this cave carved and smoothed the stone floors to create what looks like a miniature model of the surrounding valley, according to ...

12,900 years ago, in the north of what is now the United States, a mammoth was killed by a group of humans who had already begun to colonize America at the end of the Paleolithic period. The vestiges ...